Today firmness in the Covenant is the means of the promotion of the Word of God and conducive to the effect of the word of man. Any explanation which does not accord with the Covenant will have no effect whatever. Therefore, whosoever heralds the Covenant of God, unquestionably he is confirmed. This has been tried a thousand times: Any soul who violates the Covenant and Testament in the least degree, immediately he is cut off; even in this material world he will become afflicted with remorse and regret.
(Signed) ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas
(From a Tablet to Mrs. Harriet Cline, Los Angeles, Calif.,
translated on March 29, 1913; Star of the West, vol. 6, no.12, October 16,
1915)
